also if he wants to wear a binder or whatever theyre really specific on what clothing you can have in the bay like they issue the guys underwear and the girls can only wear a certain type of bra and underwear usually bought from the px he might have to go talk to a drill sgt himself about binders which might be awkward for both also while violence amd bigotry is technically not tolerated i knew a lot of guys who would make tranny jokes and stuff caitlyn jenner and the trump ban was a big current issue so while in general the army is pretty accepting basic itself is not the best place to mess around its already hard and this might just add unnessessary stress imo